63+ Best Virginia Woolf Quotes: Exclusive Selection

English author Adeline Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and ‘To the Lighthouse,’ as well as pioneering feminist texts, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ and ‘Three Guineas.’

She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a literary technique. Famous Virginia Woolf quotes will inspire you to discover your true-self and to open yourself to infinite possibility for the joy, peace and success you can experience.

Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables
bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the
mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the
body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit,
may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other
hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one
second. – Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of
fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. – Virginia
Woolf

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something
beyond the daily life. – Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never
realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have
complete emotions about the present, only about the past. – Virginia Woolf

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman
thinking. – Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell
it about other people. – Virginia Woolf

Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth
having. – Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all
that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can
say. – Virginia Woolf

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have
minded beyond reason the opinion of others. – Virginia Woolf

What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple
question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation
had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there
were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the
dark; here was one. – Virginia Woolf

I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer
inability to cross the street –
Virginia Woolf

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is
more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia
Woolf

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as
usual. – Virginia Woolf

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death. – Virginia
Woolf

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire
others. – Virginia Woolf

Let us never cease from thinking—what is this ‘civilisation’
in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take
part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of
them?” – Virginia Woolf

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must
be a woman manly, or a man womanly. – Virginia Woolf

Anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the
mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. – Virginia Woolf

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and
there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high
up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. – Virginia Woolf

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t
seem to matter very much, do they? – Virginia Woolf

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must
be a woman manly, or a man womanly. – Virginia Woolf

I will not be ‘famous’, ‘great’. I will go on adventuring,
changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped.
The thing is to free one’s self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
– Virginia Woolf

And for heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are
thirty. – Virginia Woolf

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything
and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world
and society has no existence whatsoever. – Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses
possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at
twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I
said to the star, ‘Consume me’. – Virginia Woolf

It is only when we can measure the way of life and
experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the
success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer. – Virginia Woolf

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me
you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything. – Virginia Woolf

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me
I am in darkness—I am nothing. –
Virginia Woolf

Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both
human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. – Virginia Woolf

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman
thinking. – Virginia Woolf

Books are the mirrors of the soul. – Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody
but oneself. – Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to
write fiction – Virginia Woolf

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in
us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth
spin; to have—positively—a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, as if
humanity were over, and as for men and women, let them go hang—there is no
getting over the fact that this desire seizes us pretty often. – Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his
life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works– Virginia Woolf

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.
Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and
they tear each other to pieces. – Virginia Woolf

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves
of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of
the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of
thought dip deep into the stream. – Virginia Woolf

For it would seem – her case proved it – that we write, not
with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen
winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the
liver. – Virginia Woolf

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over
with art. – Virginia Woolf

Language is wine upon the lips. – Virginia Woolf

Thoughts are divine.
– Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems
without signing them, was often a woman. – Virginia Woolf

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering
one’s aspect to take sun. – Virginia Woolf

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the
whole world. – Virginia Woolf

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